You must be known to the fact that it is the eggshells which protect growing chickens. If used for protection purpose, it means they are strong but to which extent, is really a less known fact. The eggshells are the outer covering made up of fertilized gamete which locates on the yolk surface and is […]

Beauty is always compared with the moon and it has a spot on it. The moon contains both. Earlier, it was believed that dark patches on the moon are actually a large sea and so they named it ‘Maria’ but in reality, on the moon water is not found. These dark patches are actually because

On a man’s head around 100,000 to 150,000 hairs are found which gets lost in old age but a few starts going bald from the age of 30 too. There are various reasons behind such like privilege, gender, power, youth, etc. In males generally, baldness appears on the front side which is called Androgenetic Alopecia.

Olympic game, which is also called Pan-Hellenic Games, was firstly held in 776 BC in Olympia, Greece, and continued till Theodosius I stopped it after 393 AD. It was then restarted after 1503 years, in 1896, by Baron Pierre de Coubertin and from that time it is held every 4 years and lasts for one

A report says that whether male or female they must cry once at least in month and when we cry tears come out. Tears are actually produced in lachrymal glands near the eyes and consist of water, mucous and oil. In tears, several hormones exist and prolactin is one of them which regulates the  moods

Google is actually derived from the term ‘Googol’. It is actually a mathematical term which means 1 followed by 100 zeros. This term was invented by Milton Sirotta who was nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner.  This term was used in book ‘Mathematics and the Imagination’ written by Edward Kasner & James Newman. The term

Google is now the widely popular Internet search engine but how it started is not known by all. Google was actually started by Sergey Brin and Larry Page who met each other as students in science program at Stanford. It was earlier just started as a research project in 1996 with the name of ‘Back

Snakes are sometimes taken as pious creatures in certain communities, so people offer them milk. Especially on Naag Panchami, you must have seen people feeding milk to snakes but in reality, snakes don’t take milk. Snakes just lick milk because of their thirst and not take as their food because before such festivals snake-charmers give

Most of us believe plants live and also make their own food but how they see the world. Plants do not have eyes but are sensitive to sunlight. The leaves of the plant make food with sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nutrients from the soil. The green pigment in the leaves called chlorophyll detects sunlight

It really seems strange that fish drink water but it’s true. However, all fish don’t drink and which drink, not because of being thirsty but to maintain their body concentration. Actually, the principle of osmosis is the basis of such activity. Freshwater fish have high salt concentration in their bodies as per the osmosis movement

If you have not noticed a bird’s tongue before, here is the needed insight. Birds do have tongues but they are not so functional as humans’. The tongue of a bird has bones unlike a human’s (which is a muscle) and, therefore, less mobile than ours. Different types of birds have different shapes of tongues.

We all know well that water and oil can never be mixed. Water is actually made of various tiny hydrogen and oxygen molecules, charged positively and negatively respectively and as both charges are there, so it’s obvious that they will attract each other and stick together. Such molecules with positive charge at one end and

Generally we use to say that it is the sun which gives us vitamin D to keep us healthy but we can’t ignore the fact that on extra exposure to sunlight, our health can be destroyed too. Actually, sunlight contains invisible UVs (ultraviolet rays) which can cause tanning, burning and even skin cancer too on